CFP: Literature and Medicine (journal)

full name / name of organization:

james scott zimmerman

contact email:

jsz18@columbia.edu

CALL FOR PAPERS

LITERATURE AND MEDICINE is a journal devoted to exploring interfaces betweenliterary and medical knowledge and understanding. Issues of illness,health, medical science, violence, and the body are examined throughliterary and cultural texts. Our readership includes scholars ofliterature, history, and critical theory, as well as health professionals.

Literature and Medicine is published semiannually by the Johns HopkinsUniversity Press. The first issue of each year is a thematic issue, thesecond a general one. The Fall 2001 issue, accessible through Project Muse(see link below), is the first issue published by the new editors, RitaCharon, M.D., Ph.D. of the Departmentof General Medicine at Columbia University and Maura Spiegel, Ph.D. ofColumbia University, English and Comparative Literature Department.

Manuscripts of 4,000 to 7,000 words should be submitted in triplicate, withtext and notes typewritten and double-spaced, and prepared according to theguidelines in The Chicago Manual of Style, 14th edition. Literature andMedicine is a peer-reviewed journal. Authors' names should appear only on acover sheet and any identifiers in the text should be masked so thatmanuscripts can be reviewed anonymously. Literature and Medicine reviewsonly unpublished manuscripts that are not simultaneously under review forpublication elsewhere.

The deadline for Spring 2003 Special Issue (Infection and Contagion) is May15, 2002

The Spring Special Issue of Literature and Medicine is devoted to the notionof infection. Possible subjects include the epistemological, moral, social,historical, emotional, and political dimensions of infection as we see themarticulated in texts by such authors as Sophocles, Boccaccio, Defoe, Poe,Dickens, Artaud, Camus, and Krushner. Essays might address bio-terrorism,scapegoating, the mystery of human connection, the social responses toepidemic, various practices of "othering" that have occurred throughouthistory, and infectivity and contagion in the processes of writing, reading,and criticism.

Manuscripts should be between 4,000 and 6,000 words long for the specialissue and should be submitted in triplicate, with text and notes typewrittenand double-spaced, and prepared according to the guidelines in The ChicagoManual of Style, 14th edition. Literature and Medicine is a peer-reviewedjournal. Authors' names should appear only on a cover sheet and anyidentifiers in the text should be masked so that manuscripts can be reviewedanonymously. Literature and Medicine reviews only unpublished manuscriptsthat are not simultaneously under review for publication elsewhere.